prayer

Yellow

is a dream-hidden daffodil,

brown shyness beneath the loam,

waiting

behind a hatch in the bulb.

Careful hands,

bring a rain-water bucket,

brimming with peace.

Douse life from its winter sleep.

Careful hands,

tempt joy from the ice-ground

and barge

shine sounding 

into the day -

a clarion of Easter-coming.